The making of a global arboretum: the case of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

打造全球植物园：以英国邱园皇家植物园为例

• 批准号: 2443953
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2443953
• 关键词: making; global; arboretum; case; Royal

This is a Collaborative Doctroral Award supervised at Royal Holloway (Dept of Geography) and Kew Gardens (Library, Art & Archives).Arboreta are special places where landscape management, science, horticulture, art, and visitor attraction meet. This project responds directly to current interest in the reinterpretation of such landscapes amongst academic researchers, landscape designers and the wider community of horticultural enthusiasts. The project seeks to investigate the history of the arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and to consider the influence of this 320-acre site on arboreta, arboriculture and botany across the world.The arboretum at Kew developed from a small 18th-century royal collection of 'exotics' and timber trees to one of the most extensive and globally-connected arboreta in the world, with around 14,000 trees of over 2,000 species, cared for by over a hundred staff. It was one of a new type of scientific arboretum, designed as a centre of excellence for researchers as well as for the enjoyment of a wider public. Its evolution was the result of collaboration between a new breed of 'scientific horticulturists', botanists, tree collectors and managers. As a richly-archived, though little-studied site, it offers a valuable opportunity for research into the evolution and significance of arboreta.Arboreta have received relatively little attention from historians. Recent research by historical geographers and historians of science (Elliott, Watkins & Daniels, 2016) has established an exciting new agenda for re-thinking the historical role of arboreta, going beyond the conventional emphasis on key designers and administrators (such as Loudon or Paxton) to consider wider questions concerning collecting, horticultural experiment and landscape practice. In this context, surprisingly little is known about the origins, design, use and impact of the tree collections at Kew. An investigation of Kew's arboretum has clear potential to offer new insights into the worlds of tree collecting, horticulture and botany, and how and why we value trees as a society.Research questions:(1) How did the arboretum at Kew develop from the 1840s in the context of the expanding worlds of botany, horticulture, and plant collecting? In particular, what were the significant tree species being brought to Kew at this time and who were the influential people driving collecting and change?(2) How did the practice of scientific horticulture evolve into a profession, and how did it combine practical knowledge, experimentation, research and training?(3) How have priorities for the arboretum and its collections changed over time and how does this reflect our changing relationship with science and the natural world?(4) What influence have Kew's arboretum and staff had on the global geographies of horticultural practice and landscape design?

这是一个合作的学说奖在皇家霍洛威（地理系）和邱园（图书馆，艺术和档案馆）监督。Arboreta是景观管理，科学，园艺，艺术和游客吸引力满足特殊的地方。该项目直接回应了学术研究人员，景观设计师和更广泛的园艺爱好者社区对重新解释这些景观的兴趣。该项目旨在调查基尤园皇家植物园植物园的历史，并考虑这个占地320英亩的地方对世界各地的树木园、树木栽培和植物学的影响。基尤园植物园从18世纪的一个小型皇家“外来植物”和木材收藏发展成为世界上最广泛和全球联系最紧密的树木园之一，大约有14个，2,000多个品种的2,000棵树，由100多名工作人员照顾。这是一个新型的科学植物园，设计作为一个卓越的中心，为研究人员以及更广泛的公众的享受。它的演变是一种新的“科学园艺家”、植物学家、树木收藏家和管理者之间合作的结果。作为一个档案丰富，但很少研究的网站，它提供了一个宝贵的机会，研究的演变和意义的阿尔博雷塔。阿尔博雷塔得到了相对较少的关注，从历史学家。历史地理学家和科学历史学家（埃利奥特，沃特金斯和丹尼尔斯，2016）最近的研究建立了一个令人兴奋的新议程，重新思考树木园的历史作用，超越了传统的重点关键设计师和管理员（如劳登或帕克斯顿），考虑有关收集，园艺实验和景观实践的更广泛的问题。在这种情况下，令人惊讶的是，人们对基尤树木收藏的起源、设计、使用和影响知之甚少。对基尤植物园的调查显然有可能为树木收集、园艺和植物学的世界提供新的见解，以及我们如何以及为什么把树木作为一个社会来看待。研究问题：（1）在植物学、园艺和植物收集的世界不断扩大的背景下，基尤植物园是如何从19世纪40年代发展起来的？特别是，当时被带到基尤的重要树种是什么？谁是推动收集和改变的有影响力的人？(2)科学园艺的实践是如何演变成一种职业的，它是如何将实践知识、实验、研究和培训联合收割机结合起来的？(3)随着时间的推移，植物园及其收藏品的优先事项如何变化，这如何反映我们与科学和自然世界不断变化的关系？(4)基尤的植物园和工作人员对园艺实践和景观设计的全球地理有什么影响？